The Newport Folk Festival 1960 Lineup

Featuring America's Largest Aggregation of Major Folk Artists

Friday Eve. June 24

Joan Baez
Oscar Brand
Chancy Bros & Tommy Makem
Jesse Fuller
Will Holt
Limeliters
Sabicas
Pete Seeger
The Tarriers
Robt. Pete Williams

Saturday Eve. June 25

Joan Baez
Fleming Brown
Bud & Travis
Robert DeCormier Chorale
John Lee Hooker
Mahalia Jackson
Ed McCurdy
Earl Scruggs with Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain Boys
Studs Terkel
The Weavers

Sunday Eve. June 26

Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir
Theo Bikel
Gateway Singers
Bob Gibson
Cisco Houston
Alan Mills
New Lost City Ramblers
John Jacob Niles
Odetta
Frank Warner

Tickets each performance $3.00 $4.00 $5.00

June 24, 25 & 26, 1960
At FREEBODY PARK, NEWPORT, R.I.

1960 Newport Folk Festival Panel Discussion

NEWPORT
FOLK FESTIVAL
FREEBODY PARK
Saturday, June 25, 1960
at 11:00 o'clock

- Panel Discussion -
Public Invited, Admission Free

"Commercialism and Folk Song Revival"

Dr. Harry Oster, Louisiana State University
Irwin Silber, Publish, "Sing Out Magazine"
Dr. John Greenway, University of Colorado
Ewan McColl, Author and Folk Singer

Antique Car Show
Sunday, June 26, 4:00 PM To 6:00 P.M.
Admission Free

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